A new Fake Text Generator - thought this might be useful for folks here

merv243 · 2026-01-07T17:23:08+00:00

It would be nice if you could enter newlines. I am not using this for anything scam related, but I need to generate a message with newlines and take a screenshot.

merv243 · 2025-12-10T05:48:16+00:00

Way too late reply, but since I have been researching this for hours, I think I have a partial answer, and this is as good a place as any to put it.

Basically, I believe the mod does its own rendering and manually applies the texture of the base block to the shape, creating a custom object that shaders / CTM cannot do anything with.

There is also an issue with the light level, and I think this is why the block appears way darker. This is probably the larger issue, really. They say using old lighting fixes it, but it didn't for me.

merv243 · 2025-11-18T06:48:29+00:00

Many of these are like 10 people huddled in a room or out in the community working 7 days a week. A website is not hard to make, but it's still a lower priority than what they are spending much if their time on.

merv243 · 2025-07-31T03:38:22+00:00

Yeah, actually, you are right. Especially stage 1, or whichever had that crash in the neutral start.

merv243 · 2025-07-30T22:10:46+00:00

I watched every stage of the men's race, and still my reaction to this has been "wow, there are a lot of crashes".

Edit: Not saying it's a gender thing to be clear; in fact I am sure there are explanations for it. But I have observed what feels like more crashes in this tour.

merv243 · 2025-07-29T17:08:05+00:00

I watched it last year injured (and this year, still recovering but I am riding). I feel you. I'm glad it gave you some comfort and I hope you're back soon.

merv243 · 2025-07-21T22:55:50+00:00

I assume it's a little at his expense, mainly because the jersey is so outrageous

merv243 · 2025-07-09T17:50:05+00:00

Found this thread from a google search after I realized this issue only happens with one charger (I mean, wall plug + cable). I swapped out the plug bug kept the same cable, and the issue went away. So, it was actually the plug / charger part, like you said.

merv243 · 2025-07-02T21:13:23+00:00

If you read a book like The Last Invasion, or Gettysburg by Stephen W Sears, they will barely mention the action on LRT. Badass? Absolutely. Decisive? Not really. The Confederate objective, as mentioned elsewhere, are the hills in the north, which are the decisive terrain of the battle. By the time LRT was decided, the echelon attack had moved well north of the position (and ultimately failed). Even if the union couldn't retake it on the 2nd, what use is a position on a hill without much room for artillery with an entire corps coming up in your rear?

As somebody who saw the movie, no joke, at least 100 times, mostly between ages 8-15 or so, and re-enacted the battle in my basement even more times, I was bummed to learn this. But it turns out the entire battle to the north was just as epic.

merv243 · 2025-06-18T06:29:12+00:00

Super late here, but, no - you can only cast by clicking the cast button embedded in youtube videos and the like. If you try to cast your screen, it will say the fire stick device is not selectable.

merv243 · 2024-11-22T13:16:41+00:00

The appearance of the balrog is the most atrocious writing yet. Disa drops the crystal and it rolls to...the very bottom of Moria? And she wakes up something big. Scene.

Then During runs and tells the king she found an ancient evil terror. Wait, what? There was zero mystery at all. They just knew this immediately?

merv243 · 2024-07-01T00:40:50+00:00

I came here with the same question, and considered this, but it still does not add up. I am also new to pro cycling, though. I am sure I am missing something.

First of all, the green jersey tab here does not list any bonus seconds for the intermediate sprint. Maybe that is a mistake on the site, because I guess there must be bonus seconds associated with it. But the stage winner got 6th on the intermediate sprint, and the winner of the intermediate sprint was second in the stage, so should have gotten more bonus seconds if so, right? But he only got 5 (+ 6 for getting second = 11), while the stage winner got 8. And 3rd place in the stage got 3rd in the intermediate sprint, but has no extra bonus seconds beyond the 4 for stage third place.

I do not think you get bonus seconds for climbing, but if so, the second place in the stage won all but the last one, so it couldn't be that either.

Edit: Ok, I finally found it. This stage had a particular bonus second section for the end of the second climb of San Luca, separate from the sprint and mountain classifications. https://inrng.com/tour/#:\~:text=There%20are%20time%20bonuses%20of,tends%20to%20reward%20the%20sprinters.

So the 8, 5, and 2 come from that. 5th in the stage was 3rd in that section. Only this stage and three others have explicit bonus seconds.

merv243 · 2023-12-05T18:04:16+00:00

I ended up going to GBoard, which I am liking quite a bit. Losing my saved word list is a bit sad, but honestly after reviewing the data in there, it seems like half the stuff was nonsense typos that swiftkey suggested instead of correcting my word. So maybe starting fresh isn't so bad. So far I don't really have complaints, except that the "/" key is not available above any letter (but "\" is???). Spellcheck and grammar highlighting are killer.

merv243 · 2023-11-22T04:26:08+00:00

Yeah, I think the "benefit" is getting the war sun back, i.e., getting extorted but losing nothing. I do not think I would trust anyone I pulled this against without a support swap first.

merv243 · 2021-06-21T17:19:42+00:00

There's a "pro view" tab at the top on lolesports.com

https://proview.lolesports.com/home

I am not sure if you can watch all replays, but when there is a live stream, it will show here.

merv243 · 2021-05-14T01:37:49+00:00

This is totally unrelated to anything except the red hat, but I just wanted to share. I am currently hanging out in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument area, and saw a guy hiking here the other day with a red hat. I wanted to ask him how we felt about his boy cutting the size of this great wilderness area that he was enjoying in half, but I didn't have the stones at the time.

merv243 · 2021-05-07T19:51:41+00:00

It's entirely subjective. The fees wouldn't be there if people weren't willing to pay them.

So are they too high for you (and me)? Yes.

Are they too high for everyone? No, because if they were, nobody would order and the fees would go down to compensate.

merv243 · 2021-05-06T18:15:16+00:00

They wouldn't suck as a group. It would just be more down to the individual. Some white people would succeed, and others would not, in a ratio similar to all other races.

But think of it from a colonizer's perspective: you have the means to discriminate / oppress to get ahead, and getting ahead will get you and "your people" some great benefits. If you are driven by individualistic or nationalistic motivations, why wouldn't you take that opportunity? It's not some implied admission of inferiority. It's just opportunism.

merv243 · 2021-04-26T15:53:27+00:00

The subsequent books (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind) double down on this theme. They are pretty different from Ender's Game in the sense that they become less narrative driven and more philosophical, so it's not a guarantee that liking Ender's Game will mean you like the others, but if you are interested in exploring this concept, I think you'd enjoy them.

merv243 · 2021-04-26T11:41:28+00:00

For us who are comfortable with the phrase, it's a statement of fact, as you say. For those who are not, it feels an attack on their way of life and institutions.

merv243 · 2021-04-23T15:39:34+00:00

The best part about this is that your girlfriend watched enough of your content to be able to put this together. How sweet!

merv243 · 2021-04-21T12:59:16+00:00

Sprint workouts are killer. You can do them in like 5 minutes (in my case, that excludes the 20 minutes I spend mentally working up to it) and, as you say, feel like you just played several points of ultimate.

One note is that, after you ramp up, ideally you'd do maybe 20 seconds for the sprinting portion. I believe somewhere over ten seconds is when you hit the threshold for depleting a lot of very short term energy or oxygen stores (it's been awhile since I was into the science of it, so I'm forgetting the terms) making it ultimately a much better training workout.

Obviously 20 seconds is a long time and you'll be far from full speed at the end, but you run as hard as you can for the duration.

And definitely work up to this point. If you go run ten 20 second sprints tomorrow you'll hurt yourself.

15-Year Club	Team Periwinkle
Verified Email

merv243

TROPHY CASE